Ingrid Maria Margarete Leodolter (14 August 1919 – 17 November 1986) was a physician and

Austria Austria, , bar, Östareich officially the Republic of Austria, is a country in the southern part of Central Europe, lying in the Eastern Alps. It is a federation of nine states, one of which is the capital, Vienna, the most populous ...

's first Minister of Public Health and Environmental Protection. Ingrid Zechner was born on 14 August 1919 in

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. She attended the Medical School of the

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and earned her medical degree in 1943. She completed training in internal medicine in 1951. She was the medical director of the Sophia Hospital in Vienna from 1961 to 1971. Following the establishment of the Ministry of Public Health and Environmental Protection, Leodolter was selected as the first minister in 1972. She served in that role until 1979. During her tenure, the mother-child-pass examination programme was passed in 1974, resulting in a reduction in

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from 23.5 per thousand in 1974 to 7.4 per thousand in 1992. She married Josef Leodolter in 1938. She died on 17 November 1986 in Vienna.

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